Diversity
Core Webinar - Best of Core Forum: BIPOC Women Leadership in Academic Libraries
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CHICAGO –Core hosts the webinar "Best of Core Forum: BIPOC Women Leadership in Academic Libraries" on February 7, 2024, at 1 p.m. CT. This panel presentation is composed of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) women leaders, working in middle...
Ashley Mitchell Named a 2024 Core Emerging Leader
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CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is pleased to announce that Ashley Mitchell has been selected as a Core Emerging Leader (EL). Mitchell serves as Adult Services Librarian at Camden County Library System in Voorhees, NJ. She has over 20...
Alison Van Norman Named a 2024 Core Emerging Leader
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CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is pleased to announce that Alison Van Norman has been selected as a Core Emerging Leader (EL). Van Norman serves as the Outreach and Marketing Librarian for Elon University, where she plans and markets...
The 12 steps to a community-led library
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CHICAGO — Libraries want to be more responsive to their diverse communities. Yet many libraries lack the structures, cultures, and mindsets to sustain community-led methods. “ The 12 Steps to a Community-Led Library,” published by ƵEditions, lays out...
Carrie McClain Named a 2024 Core Emerging Leader
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CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is pleased to announce that Carrie McClain has been selected as a Core Emerging Leader (EL). McClain serves as the Chief Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Tulsa City-County Library, where she...
Core Presents “Best of Core Forum” Webinar Collection for 2023 Event
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CHICAGO –Core is pleased to present the second “Best of Core Forum” webinar collection, starting on January 16, 2024. These webinars are based on programs presented at the 2023 Core Forum. The presenters are adapting the program content into live webinars...
Libraries without borders chronicled in Library History Round Table volume
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CHICAGO — “ Libraries Without Borders: New Directions in Library History,” published by ƵEditions, is a remarkable collection of essays drawn from the Library History Seminar sponsored by the Library History Round Table (LHRT). Edited by Steven A...
Bibliotherapy-informed practices, programs, and events
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CHICAGO — Bibliotherapy can be defined as the use of guided reading for therapeutic ends. And though you might not be a licensed mental health professional, you can—and do, even without knowing it—support mental health and personal growth by connecting...
Applications Now Open for the Core Online Course Scholarship for Library Professionals from Developing Countries
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CHICAGO–Core is now accepting applications for the Online Course Scholarship for Library Professionals from Developing Countries to participate in our online Fundamentals courses held between January 8, 2024 and June 28, 2024. One free seat per session is...
Core Webinar Series: Transgender People in Libraries
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CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is pleased to present the two-part webinar series “Transgender People in Libraries” in November 2023. This series, led by a nonbinary trans librarian with over a decade of experience in the library field...
Core Webinar - Best of Core at ƵAnnual Conference: Sustainable Reparative Description and You
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CHICAGO –Join Core for the webinar “Best of Core at ƵAnnual Conference: Sustainable Reparative Description and You” on October 11, 2023, at 1 p.m. CT. Learn how a cataloger, an archivist, and a metadata strategist at an academic library moved from...
Successful approaches to decolonizing archives
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CHICAGO — Simply put, decolonial archival practices involve thinking about and consciously changing how historical knowledge is produced, communicated, and preserved. And though it is especially critical that scholars and archivists who work with records...
Core Webinar: Best of Core at ƵAnnual Conference; Programming for Accessibility
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CHICAGO–Core hosts the webinar “Best of Core at ƵAnnual Conference: Programming for Accessibility” on August 8, 2023, at 1 p.m. CT. Explore accessibility through the creation of a new, hybrid early literacy program for expectant parents and parents of...
Applications Now Open for the Core Online Course Scholarship for Library Professionals from Developing Countries
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CHICAGO–Core is now accepting applications for the Online Course Scholarship for Library Professionals from Developing Countries to participate in our online Fundamentals courses held between September 11, 2023 and December 22, 2023. One free seat per...
New Core Web Course: Fundamentals of Universal Design for Learning
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CHICAGO —Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is excited to announce the release of a new course, Fundamentals of Universal Design for Learning (FUDL). This 6-week online course introduces the fundamental aspects of universal design for learning. It...
An updated guide to LGBTQIA+ books for children and teens
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CHICAGO — Books for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, asexual, and intersex readers and their allies continue to thrive and evolve in reflection of the variety of families and individual identities today. Deemed "an essential...
Culturally responsive school libraries
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CHICAGO — School librarians have always connected learners’ life experiences, cultures, and communities to materials, projects, and processes. As schools look to make these connections within the classroom and to the curriculum, school librarians are...
Core President's Program features Angela Saini
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CHICAGO —Join Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures on Saturday, June 24, 2023, at 4 p.m. CT during ƵAnnual in Chicago, IL, for the Core President's Program featuring award-winning journalist Angela Saini. Saini is known globally for her work on...
Cultural humility in library work
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CHICAGO — Cultural humility offers a renewing and transformative framework for navigating interpersonal interactions in libraries, whether between patrons and staff or staff members with one another. It foregrounds a practice of critical self-reflection...
Library services for people with dementia
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CHICAGO — Libraries have enormous potential to support people with dementia and their caregivers. Demand for dementia-friendly library services is only likely to increase in the future as the numbers of people affected by dementia rise and there is...